Fast Reads Book Club: Transcription by Ben Lerner
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For those of you committed to too many book clubs but utterly unable to resist one more, or for anyone who likes their reading life a little more manageable, Fast Reads is for books of 160 pages or less. Big ideas, small page counts.Our next read is Transcription by Ben Lerner.
A journalist is about to interview a 90-year-old polymath, for what is considered to be his last great profile. He's no stranger to the senior professor, he was his college mentor and is his friend Max's father. Minutes before leaving to record it, he drops his phone into a sink of water. He arrives anyway, and wings it.
What follows is a meditation on memory, connection, and how thoroughly technology has colonised our ability to simply be present. Without his device, he has to actually listen... and what he hears changes everything.
Lerner is one of the most precise and provocative writers working today, and this is him at his most intimate. We suspect you'll either love it or find it quietly infuriating... either way, there'll be plenty to say.
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Date
Thursday 13 August 2026 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM (UTC+10)Location
Ramona Books
79 High Street, Northcote VIC 3070
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